My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.

There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my mother wasn't too thrilled. She wanted me to go to university and get a degree or do something, and my father, he liked opera so he wasn't too thrilled either, because he wanted me to be an opera singer and I didn't have - as he said, I don't really have the strength to do that.

I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.

Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.